Have economic models' forecasting performance for US output growth and inflation changed over time, and when?

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 808-835

  Rossi, Barbara ^a   Sekhposyan, Tatevik ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecast evaluation; Inflation forecasts; Model selection; Output growth forecasts; Real time data; Structural change

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956262903     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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